Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Younger. In Holbein's macabre artistic world, people blithely conduct their lives as usual, while unseen the Grim Reaper, lurking in the shadows, waits to carry them off. Death is also the main character in Burgess' markedly disappointing effort: never mind that he presents Ronald Beard, an aging British screen writer, as his hero; it becomes quickly apparent Burgess' is more concerned with Death than with Beard...
Still worse, Burgess cannot decide what style handled black humor and lyric descriptions of Rome in the fading twilight. The dialogue is virtually indefensible on any level, except perhaps that it befits Burgess' protagonist the hack screen writer (who talks like his scripts), but that defense falters, for it can't encompass all the other characters...
...very little to do with the proceedings, although sometimes he fiddles furiously from a raised platform in the pit. Wilson's art reflects the work he has done as a behavioral therapist with autistic children. His personal view of man as a daydreamer watching his own interior screen fuels an obsessive curiosity about human communication without words. When words do occur in Einstein, they are likely to be numbers or solfege syllables like do, re, mi that are bleached of definition. Feeling but not meaning is conveyed by Gertrude Steinian repetition. So mesmeric are the proceedings that...
Size alters perception. What is seen on a television screen simply cannot equal the impact of a play unfolding on a stage. A further problem is that TV places disproportionate emphasis on closeups of talking heads; in the theater, the characters appear in the totality of their bodily presence...
...Wald's only lapse in the period. Merrimack's long shots had been wild in the first frame, but in the second 20 minutes they began to find the mark. The Warriors failed to screen out the Crimson goalie, however, and Wald did a fine job of picking off the long-range blasts...